From the imagination of 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley, wife of renowned poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, came perhaps the most celebrated monster in history. Created by the Mary Shelleys fictional Victor Frankenstein, the creature has inhabited nightmares, new editions, and movie screens for nearly two centuries. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of politically radical philosophers, friend of literary figures such as Lord Byron, and mistress and then wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS was first published anonymously in 1818.
From the imagination of 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley, wife of renowned poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, came perhaps the most celebrated...
Mary Shelley blurs the line between man and monster in this classic gothic masterpiece. The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous creature he created has held readers spellbound ever since it was published almost two centuries ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his...
Mary Shelley blurs the line between man and monster in this classic gothic masterpiece. The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous ...
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russell's short story "Sardonicus," considered by Stephen King to be "perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written," to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House...
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime...
"FRANKENSTEIN DRACULA THE INVISIBLE MAN " Three of the top horror novels of all time have been newly adapted into novellas, and are now side by side in this one book. These world-famous monsters are familiar household names. These are the monsters that authors and filmmakers continue to draw from again and again. And these are the stories that introduced them to the world over a century ago. So turn down the lights, and experience triple the action, suspense, chills and thrills, in half the time it would take to read one novel
"FRANKENSTEIN DRACULA THE INVISIBLE MAN " Three of the top horror novels of all time have been newly adapted into novellas, and are now side by side...
Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publication in 1818. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh and then, horrified at what he has done, abandons his creation. The creature, an outcast because of his appearance, learns language and becomes civilized, but when rejected by society seeks revenge on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction in which Frankenstein and his 'monster' lose all vestiges of their humanity in monomaniacal...
Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark Faustian parable of science misused that was an immediate success on its publi...
The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had made. This Gothic-style romance is among the first of true science fiction novels, if not the first. A young scientist named Victor Frankenstein, after going through his own near-death experience, decides to play God and create life in the form of a grotesque creature, which turns into a nightmare. Through his experience, he learns that the gift of life is precious, not disposable. His journey and personal transformation has deeply affected...
The idea for the story came to the author, Mary Shelley, in a dream she had about a scientist who had created life and was horrified by what he had ma...
You already know the basics of the story--Doctor Victor Frankenstein creates a monster and brings it to life, and learns a powerful lesson that life is precious and should be respected. This classic novel has inspired countless films and books. It's been an inspiration to modern authors of science fiction, horror, and suspense.
You already know the basics of the story--Doctor Victor Frankenstein creates a monster and brings it to life, and learns a powerful lesson that life i...
